Tag: self-hosting
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Libro FM and AudiobookShelf Are Seamless
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I was very happy with Audible, until it was bought by Amazon, and then I felt the desire to move away because I didn’t want to feed a monopoly. It is through my desire to break free from Audible that I began to experiment with stripping DRM from books, first…
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Migrating Photoprism From One Machine to Another
Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to the Raspberry Pi 5, and older, having issues with heat throttling and more it makes sense to build a Photoprism on a "normal" laptop before migrating towards the Pi. The process is an interesting one. Photo Consolidation The First step is to consolidate your photos from Google Photos, Apple Photos,…
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The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and…
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On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices
Reading Time: 4 minutesI grew up in the eighties, and 90s, and so computing, open source software and the world wide web grew up with me. In that time we went from going to magazine shops to buy mags, and cd shops to buy CDs, and book shops to buy books. We also took photos…
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Immich and External Libraries
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver two or three years I have been playing with Immich. In that time I have exported my photos from two or three phones multiple times. The reason for me importing photos multiple times is that every so often I update immich and something breaks. It is at this point that I…
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Digital Sovereignty and I
Reading Time: 4 minutesI want to start by saying that I hate using the word sovereignty because I think it has right wing baggage. Having said this it is the term often used by Infomaniak and others and it helps shorten the explanation. Infomaniak, like Proton, and many other European solutions provide us with the…
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The End of my Exposed Host Experiment
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor months I have been hosting Immich, Photoprism and AudioBookShelf and the experiment has been a success. It has been stable and reliable so far and I did not detect anyone accessing my server without permission. I had these services as Exposed Host via the Swisscom router DMZ setting. it was easy…
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Self-Hosted Problem
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was already out when I noticed that I forgot to restart the audiobookshelf instance on my server before the run. I could either go home, start the server, and run, or I could just go for my run and use the normal app instead. By normal app I mean using…
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Migrating Audiobookshelf From Instance to Instance
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I switched from Ubuntu on the Pi5 to Raspberry Pi’s version of Debian. I experimented this because I had just moved the data from one file system to another so it seemed like the right time to switch from one OS to another. ## ExFat to Ext4 The first step was…
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Downgrading Icloud from 200 GB to 50 GB
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there was the option to downgrade from 200GB to 100 GB I would have taken it as I needed 51.6 gigabytes to backup my phone and other data. Since I couldn’t I went through and removed my photo backup as well as back ups of folders that don’t need to be…